Articles by Tom Howell Jr.

Former Rep. Melvin Jay Reynolds has been arrested in Zimbabwe on allegations he possessed pornographic material and violated immigration laws, an immigration official in the African country told The Associated Press.
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February 18, 2014

A billionaire who spent $11 million to help put Terry McAuliffe in the governor's mansion in Virginia plans to spend up to $100 million during this year's election cycle to press for climate change measures, a new report said.
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February 18, 2014

Though its political bite has faded compared with Obamacare and other fights, the $800 billion-plus stimulus still divides the two major parties five years after it was signed, with Democrats saying it prevented a worse collapse and Republicans saying a still-sluggish economy is proof that President Obama wasted much of the money.
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February 17, 2014

Connecticut easily reached its Obamacare enrollment goals by taking a page from the Apple company and opening up storefronts that allow people to drift in and get the skinny on the labyrinthine law, according to Forbes.
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February 17, 2014

The United Kentucky Tea Party on Monday said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell should drop out of the Republican primary in their state so conservatives can rally around Matt Bevin, the GOP candidate who is challenging Mr. McConnell from the political right.
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February 17, 2014

A majority of New Yorkers support the legalization of small amounts of marijuana for personal use and, by a much larger margin, would support a medical marijuana program in their state, a new poll said.
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February 17, 2014

Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn on Monday marked the five-year anniversary of President Obama's economic stimulus, but it was hardly a laudatory toast to the 2009 bid to restart America's infrastructure and workforce.
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February 17, 2014

A new report says radical Islamist group ISIS is "so brutal that even al Qaeda keeps its distance," and it left a trail of violence as they were driven out of the Syrian town of Addana.
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February 17, 2014

Eleanor Roosevelt kept the top spot in a new survey that ranks American first ladies — her fifth No. 1 ranking over the last 32 years — while Michelle Obama edged out Hillary Clinton to come in fifth.
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February 17, 2014

Americans now assign equal weight to border security and a plan to deal with illegal immigrants who are in the United States, the top two aspects of immigration reform up for debate on Capitol Hill, a new poll says.
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February 17, 2014

President Obama's repeated use of executive powers to ease the rollout of his health care law could be setting the stage for Republicans to roll back the overhaul's most controversial parts if they retake the White House in 2016, say analysts who have tracked the law's shifting landscape.
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February 16, 2014

Bill Nye "the Science Guy" and a Tennesssee congresswoman went toe-to-toe over climate change Sunday, a topic that's heating up as much of the United States suffers from either fierce winter storms or intense drought.
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February 16, 2014

Former Gov. Mitt Romney said Sunday if gay couples want to live together, then "that's their right," but he still feels marriage should be defined as a relationship between a man and woman.
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February 16, 2014

The Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, have gone without a major incident so far, but security concerns ahead of the event were not overblown, former presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Sunday.
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February 16, 2014

Fierce winter storms in the South and drought in the West have reignited the debate about climate change, with America’s politicians still in disagreement over the cause of extreme weather and whether the country has the cash or political will to try to fix it.
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February 16, 2014

Sen. Mike Lee argued Sunday that "any high school civics student can tell you" President Obama is stretching his executive authority by ameliorating the effects of his health care law with numerous tweaks and delays to its mandates on employers and individuals.
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February 16, 2014

Political observers from both sides of the aisle said Sunday there is little use in rehashing the turmoil of Bill Clinton's presidency if his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, decides to run for the White House in 2016.
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February 16, 2014